1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide useful information to website owners.
Cookies help us remember your preferences, understand how you use our Service, and improve your overall experience.
2. How We Use Cookies
Outwizar uses cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Functionality: to enable core features of our Service
- Authentication: to keep you signed in where applicable
- Preferences: to remember your settings and preferences
- Analytics: to understand how visitors use our Service
- Performance: to improve the speed and performance of our Service
3. Types of Cookies We Use
| Cookie type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Essential for the website to function — security, network management, account access. | Session / Persistent |
| Functional | Enable personalised features such as remembering your preferences, language, and customised content. | Up to 1 year |
| Analytics | Help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. | Up to 2 years |
| Performance | Collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often, to help us improve performance. | Up to 1 year |
4. Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of our Service. They include cookies that enable core functionality and session state. Without these cookies, services you have requested cannot be provided. Strictly necessary cookies cannot be disabled.
5. Functional Cookies
These cookies allow our Service to remember choices you make (such as your region or display preferences) and provide enhanced, more personalised features.
6. Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our Service. This helps us improve our website and provide a better user experience. Where analytics are in use, data is collected anonymously and aggregated — we cannot identify individual users from this data. The specific analytics provider(s) in use are disclosed via the cookie consent banner.
7. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are placed by third-party services used on our pages, for example affiliate-tracking networks (Awin, CJ, Rakuten) that credit Outwizar when you click through to a retailer, and analytics providers. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties — please review their respective privacy policies.
8. Managing Cookies
8.1 Browser settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- View and delete cookies stored on your device
- Block all cookies or only third-party cookies
- Set preferences for certain websites
- Enable "Do Not Track" settings
8.2 Browser-specific instructions
8.3 Cookie consent
When you first visit our website, we display a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your choice at any time by clearing the outwizar_cookie_consent key from your browser's local storage and reloading the page.
9. Impact of Disabling Cookies
If you choose to disable or block cookies:
- Some features of our Service may not work properly
- You may not be able to access certain areas of our website
- Your preferences will not be remembered between visits
- You may need to manually adjust settings each time you visit
10. Similar Technologies
- Web Beacons: small graphics used to track aggregate usage
- Local Storage: data stored locally in your browser (we use this for your cookie consent choice)
- Session Storage: temporary data stored during your browsing session
- Fingerprinting: we do not use browser fingerprinting
11. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our data practices. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this policy and notify you through our website.
12. Contact Us
- Email: [email protected]
- Company: Outwizar Limited, Company No. 16924823
- Registered in: England & Wales